Summer can be a good time to conduct participant education meetings. From increasing contributions to dealing with market volatility, we offer many educational resources to help boost participation and improve retirement outcomes.
Plan sponsors have a responsibility to send certain plan notices to employees every year. But that doesn’t mean they need to spend a lot of time printing documents and stuffing envelopes. Our notice delivery services make it easy for plan sponsors to send notices and fulfill their fiduciary duties.
Plan sponsors may opt to have a range of notices automatically generated and sent via email for free (or $2.50 each via regular mail). They may also upload a notice and have us mail it for $2.00 per mailed notice. Learn more about notice delivery for PlanPremier.
Online enrollment and other key features can help plan sponsors save time and provide the best experience for participants. Watch for an invitation to join an upcoming webinar and learn how to activate online enrollment.
New options will be available soon, including elimination of collecting backup documentation and allowing participants to self-certify, to help ease administrative efforts for plan sponsors and process hardship distributions faster. Watch for more information coming soon.
Beginning in 2026, catch-up contributions made by employees with FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) compensation greater than $145,000 (to be adjusted for inflation) in the prior year will be required to be made as Roth contributions, even if regular contributions are pre-tax.
Plans that don’t already allow Roth contributions will need to add Roth elective deferrals as a contribution type (or remove catch-up contributions if you don’t want to offer Roth contributions).
Watch for additional communication from us about this change and be sure to work with your third-party administrator (TPA) and payroll provider to be prepared.
Give employees an overview of the enrollment process and encourage them to start saving with these short how-to videos. The videos are available in both English and Spanish.
Watch: How to enroll in your workplace retirement plan
We make it easy to connect with a broad range of payroll providers to help plan sponsors simplify contributions and protect sensitive information. Check out the payroll providers available through our network connections and additional providers through Payroll Integrations. In addition to 180 standard integration, we offer 360 payroll integration to further simplify the payroll process for plan sponsors.
Learn more about our payroll integration service and direct vendor connections:
The annual employee contribution limit for 401(k) plans increased by $500 to $23,500. Participants aged 50-59 and 64+ can also make a catch-up contribution of $7,500. And participants aged 60 to 63 in 2025 can make a higher catch-up contribution of $11,250.
Our automated mandatory distribution service makes handling the small balances that employees leave behind easier.
We’ll identify and notify impacted plan participants and process cash-out distributions as needed. And when participants are eligible for a rollover, we’ll roll their balance to an IRA at Inspira Financial, which now has a reduced annual administrative fee of $20 for new account holders.
Learn more about this time-saving service and how to get started.
The SECURE 2.0 Act marked a significant step toward enabling more small business owners and employees to pursue retirement stability. Get the latest updates on our recordkeeping support to help you take advantage of key SECURE 2.0 provisions.
We’ve updated our retirement plan website addresses as shown below. In doing so, we hope to make it easier to do business with us, and more clearly communicate who we are and the products and services we offer. Please be sure to update your bookmarks.
Website
New address
RecordkeeperDirect
Participant
capitalgroup.com/participant/rkd
Plan sponsor
capitalgroup.com/sponsor/rkd
Third-party administrator
capitalgroup.com/tpa/rkd
PlanPremier
Participant
capitalgroup.com/participant/planpremier
capitalgroup.com/participant/planpremier
Plan sponsor/PartnerLink — PlanPremier-Bundled
capitalgroup.com/sponsor/planpremier
capitalgroup.com/sponsor/planpremier
Plan sponsor/PartnerLink — PlanPremier TPA
capitalgroup.com/sponsor/planpremiertpa
capitalgroup.com/sponsor/planpremiertpa
SIMPLE IRA Plus
Participant
capitalgroup.com/participant/simpleiraplus
capitalgroup.com/participant/simpleiraplus
Plan sponsor
capitalgroup.com/sponsor/simpleiraplus
capitalgroup.com/sponsor/simpleiraplus